VENISON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venison mean? 

• VENISON (noun)
  The noun VENISON has 1 sense:

1. meat from a deer used as food

  Familiarity information: VENISON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENISON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat from a deer used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("venison" is a kind of...):

game (the flesh of wild animals that is used for food)

 Context examples 

This thievish leg is to hang at Milton, and the other is already at Brockenhurst, as a sign to all men of what comes of being over-fond of venison pasty.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The venison was roasted to a turn—and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about my friend such a one.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When I had none, I used to look at a venison shop in Fleet Street; or I have strolled, at such a time, as far as Covent Garden Market, and stared at the pineapples.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Only thirteen days after, a haunch of prime venison was carried from my very tent door by the wolves, and on the same day two flasks of old vernage turned sour and muddy.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet ignorance may be more precious than wisdom, for Alleyne as he walked on braced himself to a higher life by the thought of this other's sacrifice, and strengthened himself by his example which he could scarce have done had he known that the Hospitaller's mind ran more upon malmsey than on Mamelukes, and on venison rather than victories.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, my little coz, said he, I have come across to tell you that I live above the barber's in the Rue de la Tour, and that there is a venison pasty in the oven and two flasks of the right vintage on the table.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)